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Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec CummingNext Plane to LondonI had to pre-record this episode, because on September 2nd I was actually in London on a wonderful honeymoon (which had been delayed for 9 months!). I rarely pre-record shows these days - it takes me too much time because I fuss over them way too much - but I had to do it for this one, and I'm suprised at how tired and unenthusiastic I sound. I *think* that was because I was rushing to get it done before getting on the plane. Lotsa power-pop on this one. Radio Wam Bam Boom – The Peppermint Kicks Like...
2025-09-021h 55
OLD This Week in NET100 episodes with our guests - the best moments of this Week in NETWe continue our 100th episode celebration of This Week in NET with a special look back at memorable moments from past guests and a quick rundown of the latest Cloudflare blog stories.
From Internet pioneers like Geoff Huston, to Cloudflare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, and leaders like Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic) and Chris Anderson (TED), many Cloudflare experts, and John Graham-Cumming, that started this podcast with João Tomé in 2022. We revisit highlights from some of the most insightful conversations we’ve had over the past 3 years.
We also cover what’s new on the...
2025-07-2551 min
This Week in NET100 episodes with our guests - the best moments of this Week in NETWe continue our 100th episode celebration of This Week in NET with a special look back at memorable moments from past guests and a quick rundown of the latest Cloudflare blog stories.
From Internet pioneers like Geoff Huston, to Cloudflare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, and leaders like Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic) and Chris Anderson (TED), many Cloudflare experts, and John Graham-Cumming, that started this podcast with João Tomé in 2022. We revisit highlights from some of the most insightful conversations we’ve had over the past 3 years.
We also cover what’s new on the...
2025-07-2551 minOLD This Week in NETCelebrating 100 episodes with John Graham-Cumming and friendsIn this special conversation, João Tomé sits down with John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare’s former CTO and current board member, to look back at Cloudflare’s journey — from Universal SSL and Heartbleed to Workers, Radar, and what’s next for the Internet.
Topics & Timecodes:
00:58 – Favorite Cloudflare Moments: Universal SSL & Heartbleed Impact
04:36 – The Philosophy of Offering Free Services
09:20 – Evolution and Impact of the Cloudflare Blog
14:23 – Unique Cloudflare Teams: Crypto/Research Team
17:37 – The Lava Lamp Wall Story
20:41 – Key Moments for Zero Trust and Workers
22:50 – The Origin of Workers and Culture of Freedom
25:36 – The 1.1.1.1 Public Resolver Story
27:51 – The Legacy and Importance of the Cloudflare...
2025-07-2534 minThis Week in NETCelebrating 100 episodes with John Graham-Cumming and friendsIn this special conversation, João Tomé sits down with John Graham-Cumming, Cloudflare’s former CTO and current board member, to look back at Cloudflare’s journey — from Universal SSL and Heartbleed to Workers, Radar, and what’s next for the Internet.
Topics & Timecodes:
00:58 – Favorite Cloudflare Moments: Universal SSL & Heartbleed Impact
04:36 – The Philosophy of Offering Free Services
09:20 – Evolution and Impact of the Cloudflare Blog
14:23 – Unique Cloudflare Teams: Crypto/Research Team
17:37 – The Lava Lamp Wall Story
20:41 – Key Moments for Zero Trust and Workers
22:50 – The Origin of Workers and Culture of Freedom
25:36 – The 1.1.1.1 Public Resolver Story
27:51 – The Legacy and Importance of the Cloudflare...
2025-07-2534 min
Modem FuturaSummer Vibes & Spatial Rides: Inside Vision Pro, F1 & Jurassic RebootsIn this laid‑back summer installment, Sean and Andrew sweat it out in the studio to deliver a free‑flowing “potpourri” of future‑focused topics. They compare practical effects vs. CGI through the lens of the original Jurassic Park and the new Jurassic World: Rebirth; share hands‑on insights from months of experimenting with the Apple Vision Pro, spatial video rigs, and multi‑cam podcast production; and preview Xbox Cloud Gaming inside mixed‑reality headsets. The conversation then shifts to blockbuster tech culture—from Brad Pitt’s immersive Formula 1 film and IMAX storytelling to Meta’s smart‑glasses push—before turning serious with fresh take...
2025-07-0854 minOLD This Week in NETA Developer Week teaser, building with Cloudflare, and a tribute to Dave TähtIn this week's episode, we set the stage for Cloudflare’s second innovation week of the year — Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined by Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations, to preview what to expect when Developer Week kicks off on April 7, with announcements running through April 11, 2025. There we also mention how developers can now build and deploy remote MCP servers to Cloudflare.
Next, Craig Dennis, Developer Educator at Cloudflare, explains what Workers — our developer platform — is all about, and why even non-developers should try building with it.
We also honor the American network en...
2025-04-0428 minThis Week in NETA Developer Week teaser, building with Cloudflare, and a tribute to Dave TähtIn this week's episode, we set the stage for Cloudflare’s second innovation week of the year — Developer Week. Host João Tomé is joined by Ricky Robinett, VP of Developer Relations, to preview what to expect when Developer Week kicks off on April 7, with announcements running through April 11, 2025. There we also mention how developers can now build and deploy remote MCP servers to Cloudflare.
Next, Craig Dennis, Developer Educator at Cloudflare, explains what Workers — our developer platform — is all about, and why even non-developers should try building with it.
We also honor the American network en...
2025-04-0428 min
Today In History with The RetrospectorsThe Double Helix QuartetDeciphering the structure of DNA was as complex as the double helix itself. On 28th February, 1953, Dr. James Watson and Dr. Francis Crick rushed to the pub and announced to their fellow drinkers in The Eagle, Cambridge that they had just found “the secret of life”. But their work would not have been possible without the uncredited contribution of Dr. Rosalind Franklin - whose photographs of the X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA were the first to reveal its three-dimensional structure. And it was her colleague, Dr Maurice Wilkins, who first brought Franklin’s work to the attention of Wats...
2025-02-2811 minThis Week in NET2025 Internet Predictions (AI Included!)Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming for the final episode of "This Week in Net" in 2024, broadcasting from a rainy Lisbon, Portugal. The conversation reflects on Cloudflare's achievements throughout the year, including significant developments in Workers platform, AI capabilities, and hardware innovations.
The episode explores predictions for 2025, examining the intersection of AI and privacy, quantum-resistant encryption, and cybersecurity threats. John Graham-Cumming shares his perspective on how AI capabilities will become more seamlessly integrated into daily life.
Looking ahead to emerging technology trends, the discussion covers IoT devices, DDoS attacks, and zero tr...
2024-12-2742 minOLD This Week in NET2025 Internet Predictions (AI Included!)Join host João Tomé and Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming for the final episode of "This Week in Net" in 2024, broadcasting from a rainy Lisbon, Portugal. The conversation reflects on Cloudflare's achievements throughout the year, including significant developments in Workers platform, AI capabilities, and hardware innovations.
The episode explores predictions for 2025, examining the intersection of AI and privacy, quantum-resistant encryption, and cybersecurity threats. John Graham-Cumming shares his perspective on how AI capabilities will become more seamlessly integrated into daily life.
Looking ahead to emerging technology trends, the discussion covers IoT devices, DDoS attacks, and zero tr...
2024-12-2742 minThis Week in NETJohn Graham-Cumming: Getting Technical with TCP, AI and Taylor SwiftJoin host João Tomé and Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming for a deep dive into tech milestones and innovations. They’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1974 TCP Paper, dissect Taylor Swift’s cutting-edge wristband tech and review technical highlights from Cloudflare, including Cloudflare Workers supporting Fortran code and new AI models like Meta Llama 3. Plus, listen as they get into Internet resilience amid submarine cable failures and bid farewell to the iconic messaging service ICQ after 28 years. It’s a tech-packed episode you definitely don’t want to miss.Related Links - Watch the TCP 50th Annivers...
2024-11-2526 min
This Week in NETJohn Graham-Cumming: Getting Technical with TCP, AI and Taylor SwiftJoin host João Tomé and Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming for a deep dive into tech milestones and innovations. They’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1974 TCP Paper, dissect Taylor Swift’s cutting-edge wristband tech and review technical highlights from Cloudflare, including Cloudflare Workers supporting Fortran code and new AI models like Meta Llama 3. Plus, listen as they get into Internet resilience amid submarine cable failures and bid farewell to the iconic messaging service ICQ after 28 years. It’s a tech-packed episode you definitely don’t want to miss.Related Links - Watch the TCP 50th Anniversary show TCP - The Cloudf...
2024-11-2526 minOLD This Week in NETQ3 DDoS Threat Report and the Grand Opening of Cloudflare LisbonThis Week in NET reviews Cloudflare’s latest Q3 DDoS attacks report with Manish Arora, Senior Manager of Engineering. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network.
This report showed a number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million of those DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY. The banking and financial services industry was subjected to the most DDoS attacks. China was the country most targeted by DDoS attacks while Indonesia was the largest source of DDoS attacks.
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2024-10-2515 minOLD This Week in NETLet's //Get\ Technical: Blocking AI bots and crawlers for free to make a safer InternetIn this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more.
Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming begin by explaining how Cloudflare recently launched a new “easy button” to block all AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers to help maintain a safe Internet for content creators. It’s available to all customers, including those on our free tier. We demonstrate how to activate this button on the Cloudflare dashboard. We also explain the purpose of the robots.txt file—it resi...
2024-07-1124 minThis Week in NETLet's //Get\ Technical: Blocking AI bots and crawlers for free to make a safer InternetIn this week’s episode, we go a bit technical in our segment “Let’s //Get\ Technical,” featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We discuss AI bot and crawlers, elections and more.
Host João Tomé and John Graham-Cumming begin by explaining how Cloudflare recently launched a new “easy button” to block all AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers to help maintain a safe Internet for content creators. It’s available to all customers, including those on our free tier. We demonstrate how to activate this button on the Cloudflare dashboard. We also explain the purpose of the robots.txt file—it resi...
2024-07-1124 minOLD This Week in NETLet's //Get\ Technical: randomness, attacks on AI, and undersea cable failures in AfricaIn this week's episode, we premiere a new segment called "Let's //Get\ Technical," featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, who returns to the show.
João Tomé and John discuss the importance of randomness in securing the Internet for encryption. They explore lavamillions.com, a site John created using our Pages products and also LavaRand to generate random US lottery numbers, and delve into our sources of "chaos" or randomness at our offices, as mentioned in our blog post "Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices". In San Francisco, we have a lava lamp wall; in London, a double pendulum wa...
2024-03-2230 minThis Week in NETLet's //Get\ Technical: randomness, attacks on AI, and undersea cable failures in AfricaIn this week's episode, we premiere a new segment called "Let's //Get\ Technical," featuring our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, who returns to the show.
João Tomé and John discuss the importance of randomness in securing the Internet for encryption. They explore lavamillions.com, a site John created using our Pages products and also LavaRand to generate random US lottery numbers, and delve into our sources of "chaos" or randomness at our offices, as mentioned in our blog post "Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices". In San Francisco, we have a lava lamp wall; in London, a double pendulum wa...
2024-03-2230 minOLD This Week in NETAll about Cloudflare Hardware, Impact, and happy holidays!In this week's program, we go a bit longer than usual to talk about Cloudflare’s hardware, our Impact Report, and the importance of our blog, but also to wish everyone happy holidays.
João Tomé initially is joined by Rebecca Weekly, our VP of Infrastructure and Head of Hardware Systems Engineering. We delve into Cloudflare’s perspective on hardware, GPUs, CPUs, and the needs of AI services and applications (you’ll learn about AI inference). We also discuss our Cloudflare Gen 12 Server (Bigger, Better, Cooler), Moore’s Law, and what to expect in hardware and AI in 2024.
2023-12-211h 00OLD This Week in NETCloudflare 2023 Year in Review special editionIn this week's program, we discuss some of the trends from our Cloudflare Radar 2023 Year in Review. João Tomé is joined by our Head of Data Insights, David Belson, to shed light on the Internet's patterns and trends as observed through Cloudflare's global network.
We cover traffic insights and trends, connectivity and speed, and security. There's also time to explore the most popular Internet services. We answer questions about which generative AI services were most popular, how X/Twitter performed (there's a potential football/soccer trend), and also its competitors like Threads. There's also a surprising e...
2023-12-1435 minOLD This Week in NETExploring AI development one year after ChatGPT and analyzing Cyber Week insightsIn this week's program, João Tomé is joined by Michelle Chen, Chief of Staff of our Emerging Technology and Incubation team. We go over how ChatGPT is celebrating one year and the recent turmoil — on December 2, 2022 (you can check that episode here), we've put OpenAI’s new ChatGPT chatbot (with Cloudflare Workers code) to an initial test.
Other related topics include how to build an AI application using our developer platform, Workers, and its complete ecosystem; the difference between AI Gateway and Workers AI; cost savings, reliability, and efficiency without being a distributed systems expert; and keepin...
2023-11-3033 minOLD This Week in NETElections in 2024, Thanksgiving trends and AI inference in 100 citiesIn this week's program, João Tomé discusses with Jocelyn Woolbright from our Public Policy team how Cloudflare is assisting in safeguarding numerous upcoming elections in 2024. We also share Thanksgiving trends and stories. We travel to London to learn from Oxana Kharitonova of our Linux Kernel team why part 4 of the deep dive, "How to execute an object file" (the AArch64 edition), is relevant in our data centers.
From New York, our VP of Developer Relations, Ricky Robinett, introduces two Workers AI (our developer platform with AI capabilities) updates: Stable Diffusion and Code Llama, both now available as...
2023-11-2436 minOLD This Week in NETWorkers AI, Email Routing, and ZX Spectrum retro computingAfter a special episode about the Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage, which you can check here, this week's program features insights from two speakers at the Web Summit conference held this week in Lisbon, Portugal. Cassie Kozyrkov, former Chief Decision Scientist at Google and CEO of Data Scientific, shares her perspectives. Additionally, we hear from Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO of the Internet Society. The full interview will be published in the upcoming weeks.
Continuing from Lisbon, João Tomé joins Celso Martinho, our Senior Director of Engineering, to discuss two ongoing projects. The first project, Em...
2023-11-1732 minOLD This Week in NETCyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war, DDoS threat trends, and Internet disruptionsIn this week's program, João Tomé is initially joined by Omer Yoachimik (based in London, UK), Cloudflare’s product manager for DDoS Protection and Security Reporting. They discuss two blog posts written this week related to cyberattacks in the Israel-Hamas war and our DDoS threat report for Q3 2023. They cover DDoS attacks against Israeli and Palestinian websites, record-breaking hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks enabled by VM-based botnets, and how users and companies can stay protected.
Next, we go to Boston, in the US, to discuss with David Belson, our head of Data Insights, our Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary. They...
2023-10-3043 minOLD This Week in NETNetwork flow monitoring, Birthday Week update, and a bit of “evenly distributed future”In this week's program, we mix it up with different topics and different guests. First, we do a recap and update on our Birthday Week 2023, which was three week ago. Dina Kozlov, a product manager, helps put some highlights into context, and popular announcements.
From Lisbon, where João Tomé and Dina are, we go to Atlanta, in the US. Chris Draper goes over how network flow monitoring is now generally available and why that's relevant for network engineers.
We highlight some other topics of the week, from a storage-saving partnership with the company Prisma to...
2023-10-2030 minOLD This Week in NETUncovering the HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability, and Israel-Gaza Internet patternsIn this week's program, João Tomé is joined by two Cloudflare guests based in Texas (US) and London (UK): John Engates (Field CTO) and Lucas Pardue (systems engineer and HTTP expert). The main focus is explaining what the recently discovered HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability is, its significant impact on the Internet at large (resulting in never-before-seen DDoS attacks), and how Cloudflare’s customers are already protected.
Next, two other vulnerabilities are highlighted: the Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22515 and the hidden WebP vulnerability, which has more significant implications than originally anticipated.
We also delve into some Inte...
2023-10-1339 minThis Week in NETUncovering the HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability, and Israel-Gaza Internet patternsIn this week's program, João Tomé is joined by two Cloudflare guests based in Texas (US) and London (UK): John Engates (Field CTO) and Lucas Pardue (systems engineer and HTTP expert). The main focus is explaining what the recently discovered HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability is, its significant impact on the Internet at large (resulting in never-before-seen DDoS attacks), and how Cloudflare’s customers are already protected.
Next, two other vulnerabilities are highlighted: the Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22515 and the hidden WebP vulnerability, which has more significant implications than originally anticipated.
We also delve into some Inte...
2023-10-1339 minOLD This Week in NETBirthday Week 2023 edition. AI, connectivity cloud, and so much moreWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we kick things off with an intro directly from the balcony of our Lisbon office. Then, we dive into the week packed with announcements, tools, and products from Cloudflare’s Birthday Week, where we aim to give back to the Internet.
On Monday, our 13th birthday brought us important sustainability stats (you can...
2023-09-2930 min
Collateral DialogueCloudflare: Past, present, and future - An interview with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of CloudflareDescription: In this comprehensive discussion, Ken Simpson, CEO of MailChannels, converses with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, to explore the company's past, present, and future. From discussing the company's journey from its humble beginnings to its IPO, key challenges and milestones, the conversation evolves to reflect on significant events and strategic decisions such as competing directly with Amazon via the R2 Blob Storage engine. Graham-Cumming provides insights into the current state of the "Supercloud" and the integration of AI in their Workers platform. The discourse also ventures into Cloudflare's approach to fostering innovation through their $2.0 billion venture capital fund...
2023-09-281h 01OLD This Week in NETA Birthday Week teaser, (online) waiting rooms, and typo trapsWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we'll explain what to expect during our Birthday Week — the first blog post arrives this Sunday, September 24, 2023. It will bring announcements that will help people build the future on Cloudflare (with AI playing a pivotal role), surprising products, partnerships, and topics from climate and carbon emissions to performance, security, and privacy. But before that, we s...
2023-09-2330 minOLD This Week in NETA bit of Cloudflare’s Birthday Week history, Tunnels, and welcome Michele YetmanWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we start by welcoming Michele Yetman as Cloudflare's new Chief People Officer. Next, we discuss a new addition to our Load Balancing solution, but also emphasize the importance of Cloudflare Tunnels — a private, secure connection between your data center or web servers and Cloudflare.
Cloudflare’s Birthday Week is approaching later this month...
2023-09-1530 minOLD This Week in NETData Protection everywhere, application security, and an iPhone exploit to avoidWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we're back with episode #36. We start with our most recent announcement: Cloudflare One for Data Protection — our unified suite to protect data everywhere across the web, SaaS, and private applications.
There's also a lot to unpack in terms of new tools and insights from our platform for general Internet insights, Cloudflare Radar. We a...
2023-09-1430 minOLD This Week in NET2023 phishing trends, useful intern projects, and Cloudflare's lava lamp historyWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we discuss Cloudflare’s inaugural 2023 phishing threat report, which delves into millions of malicious emails, brand impersonations, identity deceptions, and other predominant attack trends based on a year's worth of email security data.
Next, we venture into a more technical realm with a blog post that offers developers an improved method to debu...
2023-08-1830 minOLD This Week in NETBGP hijack detection, exploited vulnerabilities, and how we build our productsWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, most of our Portugal team is responsible for welcoming everyone. We also cover some of the blog posts from the last two weeks. This includes Cloudflare Radar's new BGP origin hijack detection system, the most exploited vulnerabilities of 2022, and our Project Cybersafe Schools, which offers free security tools to small K-12 school districts in th...
2023-08-1130 minOLD This Week in NETUnveiling new Internet trending and routing tools, disruptions, and Kevin MitnickWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we spend most of the time going over some of the recent Cloudflare Radar (our tool for Internet insights) announcements and insights, including Internet disruptions and DDoS threats. Here’s what we discuss, in order:
How Twitter became X this week.
Why Kevin Mitnick, hacker and fugitive turned security consultant that died recently, at 5...
2023-07-2830 minThis Week in NETHow Minitel put France online 40 years ago (and a glimpse into Threads)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we don't have any blog posts to go over. Instead, we start by discussing “Threads”, the new Twitter alternative from Instagram/Meta. That said, we mostly take the opportunity to pay homage to a piece of Internet history: Minitel.
Before the World Wide Web transformed the Internet into a medium for the masses...
2023-07-0730 minOLD This Week in NETHow Minitel put France online 40 years ago (and a glimpse into Threads)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we don't have any blog posts to go over. Instead, we start by discussing “Threads”, the new Twitter alternative from Instagram/Meta. That said, we mostly take the opportunity to pay homage to a piece of Internet history: Minitel.
Before the World Wide Web transformed the Internet into a medium for the masses...
2023-07-0730 minOLD This Week in NETSpeed, Eurovision voting triumph, and a bit of history: Alan Turing 101Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we go over our Speek Week recap, mentioning a few blog posts we didn’t cover last week, including how Cloudflare scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile. Next, we talk about a deep dive with insights into the process of investigating networking issues and how to begin debugging dropped packets issues from...
2023-06-3030 minOLD This Week in NETCloudflare’s Speed Week. Where we’re going, we need speedWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we cover some of the announcements, metrics, and deep dives from our innovation week, Speed Week. It's all about how Cloudflare likes to be very fast, the advantages of that performance focus in different products, from Zero Trust to Workers, APIs and Pages, and how we like to prove that we're fast. We benchmark ou...
2023-06-2339 minOLD This Week in NETCloudflare's Speed Week teaser, APIs, exam-related shutdowns and WarGames 40 years-inWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we give you a teaser of what to expect from our Speed Week 2023. It’s our next innovation week, which is coming after this Sunday, full of announcements, new tools (that include AI and machine learning), and performance metrics. We also discuss the importance of Cloudflare API Gateway and of API-driven applications in general — given...
2023-06-1633 minOLD This Week in NETNine years of protecting civil society online, HTTP/3 usage trends, and a bit of computing historyWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we delve into spatial computing, and Apple’s new Vision Pro headsets. Then, we go over the nine years of Project Galileo, which since 2014 has been helping journalists, human rights defenders, civil rights activists, and other humanitarian organizations. In 2023, this project is protecting more than 2,271 organizations in 111 countries. Next, we talk about the launch of W...
2023-06-0932 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance)This Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we discuss our CEO, Matthew Prince, visiting Lisbon, Portugal (which includes a picnic). We delve into the Regional Tiered Cache, which offers an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers with a global traffic footprint, enabling faster content delivery by reducing network latency. ...
2023-06-0230 minThis Week in NETThis Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance)This Week in Net: Cloudflare's farewell to Railgun (and its relevance)
Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we discuss our CEO, Matthew Prince, visiting Lisbon, Portugal (which includes a picnic). We delve into the Regional Tiered Cache, which offers an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers with a global traffic footprint, enabling faster content delivery by reducing network latency. ...
2023-06-0230 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Developer opportunities, new AI-driven programmers (and a bit of TCP)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we delve into the fruitful aftermath of our Developer Week. We received valuable feedback and announced the second cohort of the Workers Launchpad, featuring incredible companies building on Cloudflare's Developer Platform. Additionally, we launched our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program.
We also explore a piece of Internet history related to TCP, fo...
2023-05-2630 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Developer Week (AI included) special editionWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we go over some of the announcements we’ve made during Cloudflare's Developer Week 2023. We had several AI-related announcements for developers, but also new products and features in our developer platform related to data storage, speed, and how we're building Cloudflare on Cloudflare. In general, we show where we’re headed in the future, poweri...
2023-05-1934 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: How we build stuff, privacy, security and “May the 4th”Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we go over blog posts related to how we built Network Analytics v2, which is a fundamental redesign of the backend systems that power Network Analytics.
We give some “May the 4th” trends for the Star Wars fans, and go over how we are building proxy applications on top of Oxy — our modern proxy framewor...
2023-05-0530 min
Techstrong 55Episode #54 - Techstrong 55, Thursday, May 4, 2023Hello everyone and welcome to Techstrong 55. Today is Thursday, May 4th, and I am your host William Willis. In today’s show, we will hear about updating open source software with William Morgan from Buoyant. Then, we will hear about free post-quantum cryptography with John Graham Cumming from Cloudflare. Finally, we will hear about certificate authenticity agnosticism with Tim Callan from Sectigo.
Without further ado, let's get the show started. Enjoy.
In this Episode:
Updating Open Source Software - William Morgan, Buoyant
Free Post-Quantum Cryptography - Joh...
2023-05-0451 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Security, speed (the importance of latency) and Easter trendsWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we go over some blog posts we wrote about Internet speed, but also our Cloudflare One Zero Trust platform being named in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge. We talk about some announcements, such as our new Network Analytics dashboard, and how it provides security professionals with insights into their DDoS attack and t...
2023-04-2134 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: An outage in the UK, the importance of rollbacks for developers, and how we’re hiring!Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, which is arriving earlier due to the Good Friday holiday in Europe, we start with Cloudflare's view of the Virgin Media outage in the UK. Then, we get a bit technical and go over the root cause analysis and solution for a bug found in Cloudflare's mTLS implementation. We also talk about the importance of...
2023-04-0630 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: From DDoS attacks in Australia to helping protect personal information in the cloudWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we “travel” to Australia to talk about recent DDoS attacks on Australian university websites, and threaten more attacks (that includes some suggestions). We also talk about Cloudflare’s commitment to the 2023 Summit for Democracy that is happening in Washington D.C.. Europe’s GDPR regulation is also present when we go over how we are helpin...
2023-03-3134 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Zero Trust speed, security and the quantum state of a TCP portWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we give some highlights from our Security Week that only officially ended on Monday, including the importance of having the fastest Zero Trust proxy. In a very different area, we also go over why the quantum state of a TCP port is the subject of a deep dive this week. There’s also news rela...
2023-03-2430 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Security Week special editionWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other sources, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we go over some of the announcements we’ve made during Cloudflare's Security Week. We had several tools that leverage machine learning and many improvements to our Zero Trust product, making it more accessible and enterprise-ready. We go over phishing and fraud protection, security management, and trends you should know about.
At the...
2023-03-1744 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: From Rust to Python and a glimpse on what to expect from Security WeekWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other elsewhere, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we go over our recent blog posts related to two relevant programming languages, Rust and Python. The related posts are:
Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework
How we built an open-source SEO tool using Workers, D1, and Queues
How Rust and Wasm power Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1
Keeping the Cloudflare API 'all green' using Py...
2023-03-1029 min
Today In History with The RetrospectorsThe Double Helix QuartetDeciphering the structure of DNA was as complex as the double helix itself. On 28th February, 1953, Dr. James Watson and Dr. Francis Crick rushed to the pub and announced to their fellow drinkers in The Eagle, Cambridge that they had just found “the secret of life”. But their work would not have been possible without the uncredited contribution of Dr. Rosalind Franklin - whose photographs of the X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA were the first to reveal its three-dimensional structure. And it was her colleague, Dr Maurice Wilkins, who first brought Franklin’s work to the attention of Wats...
2023-02-2812 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: One year of war in Ukraine, Fediverse on Cloudflare and Chief Zero Trust OfficerWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other elsewhere, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we discuss one year of war in Ukraine and the related Internet trends, cyber attacks, and resilience of the country. We go over Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud. We also give some attention to DDoS attacks given that Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DD...
2023-02-2430 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Bug bounties, attacks on health organizations and Groundhog DayWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and other elsewhere, covering a range of topics from product announcements, tools and features to disruptions on the Internet. João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming.
In this week's program, we discuss our bug bounty program that led to Cloudflare's handling of a bug in interpreting IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. We go over the uptick in targeted DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations and ways to stay protected. We include topics like the traffic control bug CVE-2022-47929, and new features such as Advanced HTTP Al...
2023-02-0329 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Deep dive, Internet disruptions & Data Privacy DayWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's program, we talk about our a deep dive related to network debugging (A debugging story: corrupt packets in AF_XDP; a kernel bug or user error?), we go over the three new winners of Project Jengo (and defeats for the patent troll), and also Internet disruptions overview for Q4 2022, and Cloudflare’s January 24 incident. We end with a reading suggestion: our three blog...
2023-01-2729 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: CIO Week special editionWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's program, we talk about our first Innovation Week of the year: CIO Week 2023. We go over several of the announcements we did, thinking of those that try to keep their organizations safe and productive.
For the written recap of the blog posts of the week, you can check our CIO Week 2023 Recap.
For more, don't miss the Cloudflare CI...
2023-01-1327 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review & DNS records (Xmas edition)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. This is our last This Week in Net of 2022.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's program, we talk about one of our most requested features: DNS record comments and tags are now here. And we go over Cloudflare Radar 2022 Year in Review microsite. In the end, we highlight some of the year’s Cloudflare announcements and give a glimpse of what to expect for 2023. Have a good holiday seas...
2022-12-2334 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Impact Week 2022 special editionWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet. And this week we have a special edition about Cloudflare Impact Week 2022!
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week's program, we discuss the announcements of the week such as Cloudflare Zero Trust services being available for Project Galileo and the Athenian Project, as well as Project Safekeeping (protecting the world's most vulnerable infrastructure), and how we achieved FedRAMP authorization to secure more of the public sector. We also discuss hu...
2022-12-1631 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Making the Cloudflare WAF smarter (and Impact Week intro)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program, we talk about South Korea (we have a data center there for more than 10 years) and our first country manager there, Alex Kim. We explain how we are making the WAF (Web Application Firewall) smarter with a new machine learning model, in the WAF Attack Score. And we go over our new Security Analytics.
Last, but not least, we g...
2022-12-0930 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: New pricing, annual plans and an AI ChatGPT testWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. This week’s program goes through how we announced this week an adjustment in pricing, that comes with new annual plans, and accelerating innovation. We talk about how Cloudflare partnered to simplify China connectivity for corporate networks and also what our Linux Kernel Key Retention Service does and why you should use it in your next application. At the end, we put to the test Open...
2022-12-0230 min
DCD Zero Downtime: The Bi-Weekly Data Center ShowEpisode 21 - How to handle an outage, with Cloudflare CTO John Graham-CummingIn this episode, we talk to Cloudflare's CTO John Graham-Cumming about how to respond to an outage at your company. We also discuss why the company bans the use of the word "Edge," and talk about the company's 'Supercloud.'
2022-12-0128 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: From deep dives to trends (Thanksgiving edition)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we highlight how Cloudflare was named one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022; we also talk about the introduction our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API; we go over routing on the Internet, and how prepending can do more harm than good; and how we manage Cloudflare IP addr...
2022-11-2830 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: The Supercloud & Developers Week 2022Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. This week’s program is a special edition to talk about our Supercloud and Developer Week 2022. We go through many of the announcements of new products, tools and features.
Cloudflare’s been building the alternative to that traditional cloud into our network and our developer platform for years. The Supercloud. The term may be new, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not real...
2022-11-1830 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: 2022 US midterm elections (and Developer Week intro)Welcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we explain how we helped protect the 2022 US midterm elections with our Athenian Project, we also explain what’s coming next week with our Developer Week and how our Workers platform is making a difference to so many companies and developers worldwide. We also include a clip of a fireside chat Matthew Prince, our CEO, did in Lisbon this week (Nov 11...
2022-11-1135 min
Explain ITAn Edge Towards CloudWelcome to another episode of Softcat’s Explain IT podcast.We are here to Explain IT. Our team of experts will be here to talk tech in simple, jargon free language. We’ll be discussing new trends and ideas as well as solutions to everyday problems in this fascinating and ever changing world of tech.An edge towards cloud, dramatic huh?To share insights and answers, regular podcast guest Adam Louca, Softcat’s Chief Technologist for Security joins us today. So does our very special guest, Author, Engineer and currently CTO at...
2022-11-0831 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net From Web Summit (Lisbon, Portugal)This week John Graham-Cumming and João Tomé were at Web Summit 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal. Tune in for highlights from the event — as well as a teaser of our forthcoming interview with TED founder, Chris Anderson. And we also go over the blog posts of the week, from an Internet vulnerability to trends related to the Brazilian Presidential Elections.
Don't miss these blog posts, which are featured in the episode:
How the Brazilian Presidential elections affected Internet traffic
Cloudflare is not affected by the OpenSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786
If you're a developer and y...
2022-11-0431 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Privacy Gateway, partial outage, Email Routing, and a treatWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we start to explain why Privacy Gateway is important, we go over what Email Routing does, now that it left Beta, and we talk about our partial outage.
We explain how to create trust with Oblivious HTTP privacy properties and why John moved his YouTube channel "Behind The Screens" dedicated to digging into source code seen in films and...
2022-10-3030 minThis Week in NETThis Week in Net: Privacy Gateway, partial outage, Email Routing, and a treatWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. In this week’s program we start to explain why Privacy Gateway is important, we go over what Email Routing does, now that it left Beta, and we talk about our partial outage.
We explain how to create trust with Oblivious HTTP privacy properties and why John moved his YouTube channel "Behind The Screens" dedicated to digging into source code seen in films and...
2022-10-3030 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: Why DDoS attacks and BPF tails are importantWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
In this week’s program, João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, with two topics at hand. We start with about a programming-deep dive we did in our blog where we unveil a few secrets behind BPF tail calls on x86 and ARM.
Then, we discuss the importance of the “old” DDoS attacks that continue to grow and to create problems for companies (we published Cloudflare’s DDoS threat report 2022 Q3 this we...
2022-10-1430 minOLD This Week in NETThis Week in Net: From post-quantum to one-click TLSWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
In this week’s program, João Tomé is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming. We’ll start on how Cloudflare is going post-quantum to protect the Internet from future threats, then discuss how Cloudflare Pages is getting even faster with Early Hints. There’s also some Nobel prize winners trends, one-click TLS that is now available, Cloudflare Stream supporting AV1 codec and its importance — and a teaser for next week’s deep dive.
Read the bl...
2022-10-0730 minOLD This Week in NET🚚 This Week in Net: GA Week editionWelcome to our weekly review of stories from our blog and elsewhere, from products, tools and announcements to disruptions on the Internet.
In this week’s program, we’re doing a special edition about our GA Week when we announced generally available products. João Tomé is presenting and is joined by our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, for a sum up with some highlights.
Read the blog post
GA Week 2022: what you may have missed
Visit the GA Week Hub for every announcement and CFTV episode — check back all week for more!
2022-09-2330 min
MaintainableJohn Ousterhout - It's Not You, It's the CodebaseRobby has a chat with Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, John Ousterhout. John founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit and proposed the idea of co-scheduling. Ousterhout led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and the first log-structured file system. Ousterhout also led the team that developed the Magic VLSI computer-aided design (CAD) program.When it comes to the maintainability of software, John is more interested...
2022-09-1949 min
The ITPro PodcastInside the DDoS arms raceCyber attacks are something that every business worries about on a near-constant basis - but while DDoS attacks may not make it onto many CISOs lists of the most worrying threats, they remain one of the most prevalent types of attack - partly because they’re dangerously easy to launch.The scale and speed with which DDoS attacks can be launched is lowering all the time, too, thanks to the spread of IoT-driven botnets and the rise of DDoS-as-a-service vendors. One of the companies on the front line of defending against this threat is Cloudflare, and in this ep...
2022-01-2830 min
Console DevToolsDev infrastructure, with John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare) - S02E01In this episode we speak with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, a global web platform built for security and performance. We discuss the philosophy behind the idea that the network is a computer, why developers should be able to ignore the low level details of where their code runs, and the challenges of deploying data centers on Mars.About John Graham-CummingJohn Graham-Cumming is the CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has...
2022-01-0633 minConsole DevToolsSeason 2 - Devtools interviewsStarting with Cloudflare CTO, John Graham-Cumming on 6 Jan 2022, in season 2 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 11 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests:Dev infrastructure, with John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare)Security, with Thomas Ptacek (Fly.io)Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb)Decentralization, with Brooklyn Zelenka (Fission)Devtools investing, with Ed Sim (Boldstart)Homomorphic Encryption, with Rand Hindi (Zama)Dev communities, with Rosie Sherry (Orbit)Web standards & privacy, with Desigan (Dees) Chinniah (Tor / Ex-Mozilla)Designing dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart)Terminal tools, with Michelle Lim & Zach Lloyd (Warp)Developer experience...
2021-12-0902 min
4iM Podcast21: Wciągamy leżącego FacebookaPoruszyliśmy dzisiaj temat awarii Facebooka. A także tego jakie skutki za sobą niosła. Powiemy co sądzimy na temat przykrego zjawiska, iż Facebook, Instagram i WhatsApp to dla wielu cały internet.
Tomasz opowie o pewnym interesującym wydarzeniu kulturalnym, którego jest fanem.
Nowym segmentem jest recenzja odkurzacza Roborock S7. Rozmawiamy o jego zadach i waletach. Oraz o sensowności tego typu urządzenia na małym i dużym metrażu.
Na końcu polecajka pierwszego filmu z 5. fazy Marvela - SHANG-CHI I LEGENDA DZIESIĘCIU PIERŚCIENI.
Linki:
Awar...
2021-10-0838 min
alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders#20 - John Graham Cumming // CTO Cloudflare
This time I spoke to John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of 🌩 Cloudflare🌩, a publicly listed CDN and
Edge Computing platform.
Topics we touched:
His GNU Make book ;-)
How they grew to 25 BN marketcap 📈
What he thinks about edge computing and concrete usecases for it
How COVID changed the security world
How they operate and maintain a global network with millions of servers
Thanks a lot John for the Chat. Looking forward to see what Cloudflare comes up with next.
2021-02-2551 min
Lessons from the School of Security Hard KnocksLessons from the Lessons: It's a Meta World!For our 25th episode, our host and CEO, Joe Saunders, reflects on his lessons learned over the past 24 episodes.
He focuses on 6 specific episodes: John Graham-Cumming, Greg Touhill, Tony Sager, Gary McGraw, Rick Howard, and Ron Ross. He shares his insight on how these episodes touch on three different kinds of lessons: personal development & leadership, business, and technical.
2021-02-1525 min
Dinheiro Vivo - Made in Tech - PodcastDos hábitos online em ano de pandemia aos desafios da internet atual - CTO da CloudflareNo 11º episódio John Graham-Cumming, CTO da gigante Cloudflare, fala sobre os hábitos online dos portugueses, segurança online, VPN no teletrabalho e sobre quem deve decidir que sites banir. @emot
2021-02-0500 minLessons from the School of Security Hard KnocksJohn Graham-Cumming: Just Keep GoingToday's Guest is John Graham-Cumming, CTO at CloudFlare.
In this episode, John Graham-Cumming discusses his early background, his role at CloudFlare, how internet infrastructure differs in China, his book "The Geek Atlas", code breaking, email filtering, movie code, what keeps him up at night, 5G, and more.
2021-02-0327 min
KodsnackPrydnadsutvecklareFredrik och Kristoffer snackar om en glatt blandad påse ämnen. Vi börjar med att starkt rekommendera podden On the metal. Sedan blir det tangentbordssnack. Fredrik har lagt sina viktigaste modifieringsknappar på hemraden och berättar hur han fick det att funka. Kristoffer berättar om en tangent han är extra nöjd med. Avsnittet sponsras av VMware som tycker att just du ska delta i vForum 20219 februari och få veta hur VMware Tanzu kan hjälpa dig förbättra och automatisera din produktionssättningsprocess. Surfa in och anmäl dig redan idag til...
2021-02-0247 min
Björeman // Melin // ÅhsAvsnitt 242: Ingen relation till Boba Fett
I skuggan av det snöblandade regnet utspelar sig det kritiska tvåhundrafyrtioandra avsnittet av Björeman // Melin:
Kritiska dryckesproblem löses
Krya på dig Christian
Hjälp, har jag slitit ut GT?!
Fredrik besöker veterinären
Det känns inte som om arbetsåret börjat riktigt. Bieffekt av corona?
Gemini – äntligen, den felande länken mellan webben och … Gopher?
Alpine i macOS
Fredrik bygger ut sitt meshnät, lite men lagom överdrivet
Poddlistan är tom. Rätt skönt
Har Fredrik lagt 25 timmar i veckan på poddlyssnande? Det är inte omöjligt!
Elpriset skjuter i höjden. Jocke stänger av...
2021-01-2100 min
On The MetalJohn Graham-CummingYou can find John on Twitter at [twitter.com/jgrahamc](https://twitter.com/jgrahamc).- Babbage overview and the Difference Engine: https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/overview/- Difference Engine No. 2 at the London Science Museum: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co526657/difference-engine-no-2-designed-by-charles-babbage-built-by-science-museum-difference-engine- BBC Micro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro- Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81- BBC Micro Advanced User Guide: http://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/BBC%20...
2021-01-111h 23
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons PodcastThe Ebb & Flow of the InternetFor better or for worse, the internet today is funded by advertising. While ads can be annoying, the real issue isn’t having to watch ads – it’s when then ads watch us. AdTech today is premised on invasive personal data collection. Companies like Google and Facebook amass voluminous dossiers on each of us, and sell highly-targeted ads based on our income, gender, age, location, buying habits, personal interests, sexual orientation, and much, much more. But it doesn’t have to be that way. And Cloudflare is going to show us how. Today, I’ll talk again with the CTO, John...
2020-11-0251 min
Breaking Bread with DREADDread's Nightly Tidbit - 8/30/2020 - Internet DownIf you had any issues with your online gaming, so did pretty much half of the internet. As per Forbes, Paul Tassi (Senior Contributor), it involves Cloudfare but was updated and confirmed not to be on Cloudflare, but instead a Level 3/Centurylink issue.
Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming shared a statement:
“Today we saw a widespread Internet outage online that impacted many multiple providers. This was not a Cloudflare-specific outage. Level 3/CenturyLink was responsible for an outage that affected many Internet services, including Cloudflare. Cloudflare's automated systems detected the problem and routed around them, but the ext...
2020-08-3101 min
Easy PreyWebsite Attacks with John Graham-Cumming and Evan JohnsonWebsite attacks are very common. They are often not personal, but they can create a mess for website operators. As website owners and operators, we need website privacy and security especially if we are collecting data and personal information. As I was making more money from my business in 2015, the need for better performance became an issue. I also needed to be able to keep my site up 24/7 and not have to deal with outages. My website started getting sustained 500-bit denial service attacks. I realized very quickly that this was not my expertise, but that is...
2020-04-2235 min
Go Time: Golang, Software EngineeringGo at CloudflareJaana, Jon, and Mat are joined by John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of Cloudflare, to discuss Go at Cloudflare along with John’s unique involvement in Gordon Brown’s apology to Alan Turing. How did Cloudflare get started with Go? What problems do they use Go for and when to they turn to other languages? And how exactly did John’s petition for an apology to Turing get so popular?
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – The simp...
2020-01-1457 minFirewalls Don't Stop Dragons PodcastSet Warp Factor 1.1.1.1Why do most VPN apps suck so badly? How do you know which VPN service providers you can trust with your privacy? How is it that our internet service providers know so much about our web surfing habits? Today I explore these questions and more with John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of the internet performance and security company. He will also tell us about a new VPN service coming soon from Cloudflare called Warp that may finally address all of these problems.
John is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed...
2019-07-0142 min
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons PodcastHow a Wall of Lava Lamps is Helping Secure the InternetWhat do you get when you cross cryptography with a wall of lava lamps? Believe it or not, a much more secure Internet. Cloudflare’s CTO John Graham-Cumming will explain why all our modern communications require sources of randomness to remain secure, and how his company has used a wall of 100 lava lamps to serve as a serious source of entropy. John will explain how to pick strong passwords using dice, how you can predict random numbers, and whether quantum computing will render all of our crypto technology useless.
Book: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Anc...
2018-08-1300 min
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons PodcastOne Simple Step to a Faster and More Private InternetWouldn’t it be great if you could speed up every single website you visit without paying a dime? Every time you go to a website, your computer or smartphone first has to look up how to get to get there – just like we used to have to look up people’s numbers in the phone book. The service we all use is the Domain Name System (DNS), and by default, your DNS provider is probably not very fast.
Today, John Graham-Cumming (the CTO of Cloudflare) will carefully explain how this works and why his company’s 1.1.1.1 DNS serv...
2018-07-0200 min
Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons PodcastHow Dumb Are Your ‘Smart Devices’?Do you have a “smart” TV? Or an Internet-connected baby monitor? Then you are a part of the Internet of Things (IoT)! Welcome to the world of everyday devices being connected to the network, allowing you to change the temperature of your home while traveling, check up on your dogs from work, and have a Bluetooth speaker that can also fetch tomorrow’s weather forecast. While there are lots of great uses for these devices, their security (or lack thereof) is making many of us vulnerable to attack.
Today I speak at length with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Clo...
2017-06-0700 minGo Time: Golang, Software EngineeringGo in 5 Minutes & design patternsAaron Schlesinger joined the show this week to talk about his Go in 5 Minutes series of screencasts, and design patterns in Go.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code gotime20 to get 2 months free!
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Backtrace – Reduce your t...
2016-09-221h 00
TED TechnologyJohn Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never wasComputer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers. (Recorded at TEDxImperialCollege). A video of this talk
2012-03-0112 minTED TechnologyJohn Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never wasComputer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers. (Recorded at TEDxImperialCollege). A video of this talk
2012-03-0112 min
Shift Run StopEpisode 57: John Graham-CummingA modern nerd legend for you this week, as we chat to John Graham-Cumming about his new project, Plan 28, which aims to "finish Babbage's work" by raising the cash to build an Analytical Engine from original plans. John has previously successfully petitioned the Government to formally apologise for the treatment of Alan Turing, and is the author of the Geek Atlas. All that, plus potato printing with Kinect, space balloons, Star Wars and yet more Mexican snackfood in this unnecessarily spicy serving of your favourite podcast.
Links: JGC (homepage) | JGC (Wikipedia) | Plan 28 | Geek Atlas (Amazon) | S...
2010-12-1600 minShift Run Stop (just the episodes)Episode 57: John Graham-CummingA modern nerd legend for you this week, as we chat to John Graham-Cumming about his new project, Plan 28, which aims to "finish Babbage's work" by raising the cash to build an Analytical Engine from original plans. John has previously successfully petitioned the Government to formally apologise for the treatment of Alan Turing, and is the author of the Geek Atlas. All that, plus potato printing with Kinect, space balloons, Star Wars and yet more Mexican snackfood in this unnecessarily spicy serving of your favourite podcast.
Links: JGC (homepage) | JGC (Wikipedia) | Plan 28 | Geek Atlas (Amazon) | S...
2010-12-1600 min
Security Now - 16k MP3SN221: The Oxymoron of "JavaScript Security"This week Leo and I are joined by author (The Geek Atlas) and software developer John Graham-Cumming to discuss many specific concerns about the inherent, designed-in, insecurity of our browser's JavaScript scripting language. Now 14 years old, JavaScript was never meant for today's high-demand Internet environment — and it's having problems.John's original presentation slides in Microsoft PowerPoint and PDF formats.
2009-11-0600 minSecurity Now - 16k MP3SN219: Badly Broken BrowsingIn preparation for episode #221's guest, John Graham-Cumming, who will take us on a detailed walk-through of the JavaScript language's security problems, this week Leo and I examine the sad and badly broken state of web browsing in general, and how we got to where we are.
2009-10-2300 min